Failure of cp comman?

[Knute Johnson]

I'm backing up my important files at night to a thumb drive formatted 
with FAT32.  One of the files to be copied has two colons in the file 
name.  That isn't acceptable in a FAT file system and the log has the 
following error;

/etc/cron.daily/system-backup:
cp: cannot create regular file 
`/media/usbdisk/home/knute/.cpan/build/Mail-Sendmail-0.79-0k5uki/blib/man3/Mail::Sendmail.3pm': 
Invalid argument

My question is what happens to the cp command when an error such as this 
occurs?  Does it stop copying files or does it continue to copy all 
files that don't have errors?  I've looked at man cp and info but there 
isn't any information on what happens when an error occurs.

Thanks,

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Knute Johnson
ubuntu at knutejohnson.com